This book examines the debate over the proper connection in society between religion and public life, that took place in the fifty years following the American Revolution. Jonathan Sassi challenges the conventional wisdom, finding an essential continuity to the period's public Christianity. Most previous studies have seen this period as one of sharp disjuncture, in which the nation's cultural paradigm shifted from republicanism to liberal individualism.
| ISBN: | 9780195129892 |
| Publication date: | 28th February 2002 |
| Author: | Dr Jonathan D Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, College of Staten Island Sassi |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Religion in America |
| Genres: |
History of religion Christianity |